Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to score or mark the brisket prior to the brisket being cut, to allow evisceration of the carcase.
This unit is applicable to workers from a slaughter floor, knackery or wild game processing establishment.
All work should be carried out to comply with workplace and hygiene requirements.
This unit applies to individuals who work under general supervision, exercise limited autonomy and have some accountability for their own work.
No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.
This unit must be delivered and assessed in the context of Australian meat processing standards and regulations.
Elements and Performance Criteria
Element | Performance criteria |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Mark brisket | 1.1 Mark brisket according to work instructions 1.2 Identify and manage sources of contamination and cross-contamination according to workplace requirements 1.3 Identify and comply with workplace health and safety requirements for working in and around the evisceration area 1.4 Explain and comply with Quality Assurance (QA) requirements for scoring and marking the brisket |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must score or mark the brisket prior to the brisket being cut, to allow evisceration of the carcase.
The candidate must:
mark the brisket in accordance with work instructions
comply with workplace health and safety requirements for marking the brisket
apply relevant workplace and regulatory requirements
apply the workplace health and safety requirements for working in the evisceration area
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
the purpose and importance of marking the brisket in accordance with work instructions
possible sources of contamination and cross-contamination while marking the brisket and how these are avoided
relevant work instructions
relevant regulatory and workplace requirements
workplace health and safety requirements for working in the evisceration area
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must occur in the workplace under normal conditions.
Competency must be demonstrated at normal chain speed.
As a minimum, the following three forms of assessment must be used:
quiz of underpinning knowledge
workplace demonstration
workplace referee or third-party report of performance over time
Assessors must satisfy the current standards for RTOs.
Foundation Skills
Foundation Skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.